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Italy lets minors, sick off migrant rescue boat but spurns others

Crew members of NGO rescue ship 'Ocean Viking' give lifejackets to refugees and migrants on an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean Sea [File: Camille Martin Juan/Sos Mediterranee via Reuters]

Italy has allowed a rescue ship carrying 179 refugees and migrants to enter a port in Sicily and begin disembarking children and sick or “vulnerable” people.

But the far-right government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni continued to refuse on Sunday to respond to requests for safe harbour from three other ships carrying nearly 900 people and stranded in nearby waters amid rough weather.

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